This may be the last week we do the FM show. Not because we don’t want to, but because we are having trouble finding advertising support. The community has demanded a voice. And, now we along with Green Rights Radio are on FM Radio. There are others who do what we do on the net like MJR, Time4HEMP, NORML LIVE, and more that are your voices of reason to the outside world. We can support the community and preach to the choir forever, but until we are at a time where our issues and concerns are addressed and talked about in an open forum we are not there yet and cant hope to be without it.

Its hard for all of us to get monetary support to do what we do. I understand that. Some view this as a hobby or side project. To us its everything about the future and more. People want our side to be heard in the mainstream, but we cant do it without help and support from you all to become that. To knock out the normal “reporter and coverage” and input our own. The mainstream will never stop its ignorance if we never have some of our own implanted in it. The importance of us having a voice right now is huge. And we (our culture) are the ones who need to speak when it comes time.

We cannot rely on the mainstream or ignorance of Cannabis to be that voice anymore. Mainstream news will devote huge coverage to gay marriage, and sideways politics, but only barely touch Cannabis. They do follow ups and analyze whats going on in highly contested occasions. But, with Cannabis they don’t. Its been the same propaganda and regurgitated “false” facts that have been fed to them by the Drug Warriors for years. We can overcome all that and we can do it our way. It just takes a little support. I feel we do what we do just as good as anyone else in the News media. Our coverage and analyzation of the industry is second to none with anything the mainstream “media” has to offer. We are their replacements if you let us.

I am confident that I have built and directed a project that has has gained a lot of respect and a decent following of listeners. It is something that has become more than just a part of me, it is everything. Along with some of the other voices of our community. We need you. We need to be heard outside the community to effectively accomplish our goal. Change politics from a media standpoint, and allow a voice to be heard that is different from those who know nothing of what we do, and who we are.

Plain and simple. We need advertisers to sign on to the FM show and help run with what we have a chance to go with. If we get them, we will continue to bring what we offer to new podiums

Thank you a ton. To me this topic of Cannabis and goals with it are just as important as anything else in the world. I promise I’m doing the best I can for what I think is the best I can do for us. Come ride with us and we can do a lot more!
Tim Martin
JDR
Your voice.

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Some of the dispensaries I go in are nice enough that I could write a review with relative ease. Other dispensaries are so great, the review writes itself and Alternative Wellness Center is one of those.

After plans fell through one afternoon last week, I found myself in Denver with little to do but waste time. I had been invited by a few people to come check out a dispensary on the west side of I25. When I dug through my purse and snapped open my med jar, I found it was uncomfortably barren and decided that now was as good a time as any to try out something new. I drove a few blocks west and found myself at Alternative Wellness Center (2647 West 38th, Denver CO 80211)

After rounding the block a few times for a parking spot, I figured out the private lot behind the place had its own parking. I pulled in and rolled in the front door. A pretty girl smiles at me from her desk and welcomes me back into a large room lit with natural sunlight. The friendly bud tender nodded to me from behind a glass display case and the most adorable little dog starts to dance around my feet, begging for the tummy-scratching she seems accustomed to. The place is welcoming and comfortable, and almost too trendy. I feel like Im sitting in a posh dental office, not a store where you go to buy one of the most controversial medications ever, marijuana. I plop down on the leather sofa to play with Lily, Cannabis’ most famous bitch, and am suddenly immersed in conversation.

If you want to know why a person is in this industry, visit them on your own terms. I didnt let Alternative Wellness know I was coming but I still had the opportunity to sit down and talk with both of the owners and their staff. (Hi Ed! Hi Pablo!) They were willing to answer my questions and even offered up their own personal stories about how cannabis had changed them, while listening to my long-winded accounts. Although they were busy, I had the opportunity to meet their Rolfer and get a full tour of the beautiful facilities(seriously, check out their epic bathroom!)

What I enjoyed most, and what makes Alternative Wellness Center stand out above the rest is the conversation I was able to have so quickly after meeting everyone. In a relaxing atmosphere I found myself enthralled in a passionate exchange with the staff about the legitimacy of our industry and how to best help the patients around us. We talked about HB1284 and how they would be affected. We talked more about the edibles industry and how they plan to stay on top of the market with their denver-based wholesalers. We talked and before I knew it, the afternoon was spent.

Its all warm and fuzzy, right? We had a great conversation about cannabis and activism and greed, the owners having a firm grasp on the laws they are up against and the coming legislations that are changing them. So we know they are in it for apparently all the right reasons, and are doing well by their patients and employees, but what about the medicine?

For meds, This place is second only to one. I picked up three strains, K2- a new breed I had never come across yet but that surprised me with its crystalline leaves and intense earthy aroma. Durban Poison, one of the strains I use most common, because it works so well with my RA. And last but certainly not least, Lambs Breath- the strain that introduced me to medical marijuana- the first strain I didnt get from that guy I know.

All three strains were beautiful, so beautiful that I neglected to smoke them until I could show my friends. Look, real medicine, from a Denver dispensary, who knew!? Jokes aside, most Denver dispensaries are eons behind the dispensaries in Northern Colorado and I found good meds were few and far between.  Alternative Wellness Center is the exception to that rule, they had plenty of strains but of much higher quality than I normally see. After a few quick-fire questions, I smiled knowing that the budtenders were not only handling the medication well, but really knew what they were talking about. Each one of them asserted a high-level of cannabis knowledge that is generally lacking in many of the facilities across this state.


Cheers to you, AWC. If Im ever in Denver and in need of meds, I wont be going any where else.

To Visit Alternative Wellness Center visit their website here. Their Facebook page HERE. And meet Lily for yourself here. That’s right, she is so cool she has her own facebook page, tell her I sent you.

Hours of Operation
Monday–Friday 12:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. Saturday 12:00 p.m.–7:00 p.m.
Private Consultation Available

2647 West 38th Ave Denver, CO 80211
(720) 855-6565

info@altwellcenter.com


I have to add this in here, because in the interim of writing this review, I made it back to AWC one more time. I picked up some of their OG Fire Kush for a strain review on the John Doe Radio Show and I have to say, bravo. To the talented grower that took such time and care in growing this wonderful strain, thank you. You knocked the whole JDR crew on their asses, and that alone is something to be said. High Five to you, my friend.

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